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Tents set up by people experiencing homelessness along Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood on the morning of June 16, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
About 100 people experiencing homeless continue to live on a quarter-mile stretch of Kensington Avenue near McPherson Square and the Allegheny Avenue transit station even as the Kenney administration says they have left the area.
Some people were living in tents and makeshift structures, but most were sleeping on the sidewalk Wednesday morning along Kensington Avenue. At the intersection of Kensington and Allegheny, police officers mixed with a smaller number of unhoused people and protesters there to publicly oppose a planned city sweep of the encampments.
WASHINGTON, D.C. â Jennifer Savage, a Cecil County native who is a 1989 Bohemia Manor High School graduate, was serving as a diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Quito, Ecuador on Jan. 12, 2010, when she received orders from the Department of State in Washington D.C. to fly to Haiti and assist.
Earlier that day, the island country had experienced a 7.0 earthquake that destroyed hundreds of buildings, leaving approximately 250,000 people dead, roughly 300,000 others injured and about 1.5 million residents homeless.
A U.S. military plane transported Savage from Ecuador to the Dominican Republic, which comprises the other half of the island shared with Haiti, after she was given her assignment.
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Outside Allegheny Station in the Kensington section of Philadelphia. (Natalie Piserchio for NPR)
SEPTA will close Allegheny Station for overnight repairs for three nights starting Friday, April 23. The closures, lasting from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m., are for deep cleaning and maintenance work.
“We know that it is an inconvenience and we will impact some people and some people’s work schedules as well,” said SEPTA general manager Leslie Richards. She said the choice to do it over the weekend was to “impact the least number of people during the work schedule.”
Also, on April 23 at 8 p.m. SEPTA will shut down the elevators at the station for repairs. No date has been set on when they’ll reopen yet.
Local search canines find their quarries, dead or alive
Sandoval County Fire and Rescue first responder Shannon Farrell and her dog KT work through a test to renew their human remains detection certification for the fourth year. KT has already helped find bodies, including those of two Albuquerque teenagers who had been missing and presumed dead in 2018. Amy Byres photo.
Yes, to certify a canine in human remains detection, dogs have to test with real body parts.
Sandoval County Fire and Rescue first responders David and Shannon Farrell spent April 2 testing their search-and-rescue dogs, Shamus and KT, for a human-remains certification.
Teams take vaccines to area homes
Yolanda Trent said she felt a weight lifted off her shoulders the moment she received her COVID-19 vaccination Wednesday from Sandoval County’s mobile immunization team. Amy Byres photo.
The COVID-19 vaccine hit the road in a mobile unit to bring the shot to those who are home-bound.
“This is incredibly rewarding for us all to be able to get out into our community and help get people vaccinated, especially those with mobility issues,” said Sandoval County Fire and Rescue Chief Eric Masterson.
The Mireles family was in high spirits on Wednesday when SCFR Battalion Chief Greg Bobick and firefighter-paramedic Shannon Farrell showed up at their house with five Johnson & Johnson vaccines.